Or Global Cooling?
Failures. Every last one needs to be fired, today. Start over with people who know what they are doing.
nothing but lawyers and people with jack-off science degrees (Environmental science)
Global warming fools no doubt?
Make Texas California Again
It’s idiotic to pretend you cant run an electric system without such people. But just for argument say they are just fantastic in their field. (Obviously not)
But where are they now? Is he sitting in Germany? Is he toasty in his Michigan house? If there is a crisis in the system they manage, are they physically there? Or are they managing by zoom?
If they are not managing, why do you need them? For planning and organizing? They obviously suck at that.
Not surprised.
When your worldview is that snow will be a memory in all of the lower 48 by 2025, you do stupid things.
Kind of like how a local city didn’t by salt one year (in Illinois) because they were “assured” that with global warming snow would never happen again.
Well, that guy is now managing a city in Florida and they have salt again.
Some of the others:
Terry Bulger - Mr. Bulger is a resident of Wheaton, Illinois, and holds a master of business administration from the University of Toronto. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Rabobank US and is a member of the Risk (Chair) and Audit Committees.
Raymond Hepper - last address I saw for him was in Massachusetts although he may be in Maine.
Here are the main questions that need to be asked. How many of the ERCOT board members have ever been directly responsible for the operation of an electric generating station or an electric transmission system. How many of them have held a position that required that they decide when, where, and what fuel to use for the next electric power generating plant on the their system or when and where to build the next electric power transmission line? If the ERCOT board of directors consists of university eggheads and environmental so called experts, then this could be the root cause of the problem.
I saw someone mention this on another thread
When life hands you ice, make ice tea.
LETS invoke a little history in all this ... shall we?
THIS was a cold weather event redux, first performed in 1989, repeated in 2011 and again here in 2021. Temps this time matched those in 1989, before Texas went with a de-regulated electric market. Temps in 2011 only dipped into the teens instead of the single digits as in 1989 and 2021.
“Report on Outages and Curtailments During the Southwest Cold Weather Event of February 1-5, 2011”
2-01-2011 Feb 2 2011 ERCOT blackouts
https://www.balch.com/files/upload/NERC_8_16_2011_SW_Cold_Weather_Event_Final_Report.pdf
Doc also contains:
“Impact of Cold Weather on Gas Production in the Texas
and New Mexico Gas Production Regions of the United
States During early February, 2011”
“Winterization Document”
Prepared for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Prepared by Gas Technology Institute
by Kent F. Perry
An excerpt from pg 188:
After a Senate Committee hearing, the bill was amended and unanimously adopted by the Texas Senate. The House unanimously passed the bill on May 23, and the bill was signed into law by Governor Richard Perry on June 17, 2011.
“February Power Blackouts Across Texas echoed 1989 Failures”
By Eric Dexheimer
Austin American-Statesman, Apr. 10, 2011
Posted Apr 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Updated Dec 12, 2018 at 10:13 AM
https://www.statesman.com/article/20110411/NEWS/304119704
Records show the two top office holders of the 15-member board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), live out-of-state. Three other ERCOT board members also appear to live thousands of miles from Texas.
Source: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/five-ercot-board-members-live-out-of-state-texas-jeff-leach-calls-for-change/287-2a1286b8-9cf5-4336-ae58-97b1997f9fa0